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Prime Minister Mark Carney is preparing for his first White House bilateral with Donald Trump; he should be sure to pack a thank-you gift for the mercurial president. As evidenced in the election results that have made Carney an elected prime minister largely based on his credentials as an economist and crisis manager, Trump has become perhaps the single greatest...
During Donald Trump’s first term, The New Yorker published an iconic cartoon that showed a flock of sheep grazing on a hill alongside a billboard of a wolf who is campaigning for office. The wolf’s election slogan is “I am going to eat you,” leading one sheep to comment, “He tells it like it is.” There’s a lesson for us...
While Donald Trump’s second presidency is generating anticipatory anxiety in capitals across the world, here in Canada, all eyes are on January 20 awaiting an answer to a very specific question: “Will he or won’t he?” Will he or won’t he levy an across-the-board 25 percent tariff on Canadian and Mexican goods?” Though, by now, it should be clear that...
When Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tables the 2024 federal budget, it will be the seventh anniversary of the Trudeau government’s escalator tax on beer, wine and spirits. Originally crafted in 2017, during what now looks like a Goldilocks period of low and predictable inflation at or below two per cent, the measure might have seemed rather benign. Since excise taxes...